ok I wasnt really looking for a description of bash commands... more like combinations of them.I think there is already a post here containing basic bash commands.*rm -rf = remove recurisive and force

dmesg | grep [device name]

outputs boot hardware information about a specific device useful for troubleshooting kernel problems. If the device is CD it will spit out info about your CD roms if you use hd as the device it will tell you about your harddrives

i always find myself using "locate [file] | grep [bin|png]" or whatever file i'm looking forusually either when i'm looking for icons to use i'll do like "locate ethereal | grep png" or when trying to find where a program runs from, "locate mysql | grep bin"enormous timesavers just b/c i don't pay as much attention as i should when i install stuff. well, i make sure i install it right, but about 4 hours later i forget where that was, loland of course, ps -aux | grep [program name]speaking of which, i'm trying to find a way to pipe a process id into kill....but i can't figure it out. kill always comes back with an error everytime i try. i figure it'd be a huge timesaver if i can just write up a shell script where i just type in like "slackill [program]" and by going through ps and grep and cut and kill....it'll kill the process for me//

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